Long Branch school board sells West End School to Jewish group for $3.3 million

Buyer sued Long Branch for denying religious center

10:39 PM,
Feb. 18, 2014

Written by

Carol Gorga Williams
| @APPCarol

Long Branch school board is selling the West End School to a religious organization that also happens to be suing the city in a religious freedom discrimination case.

The city-based organization, known as the Menachem Learning Institute, is purchasing the 2.26-acre parcel and school for $3.3 million. The institute, known as the Chabad of the Shore, also alleges in a pending lawsuit that the city zoning board discriminated against it when the board rejected its proposal to build a synagogue and community center in West End.